Chieftess Vigdis of Nantes

Chieftess Vigdis of Nantes (849-893) was the chieftess of the Chiefdom of Nantes and was the wife of Haesteinn of Nantes.

Biography
Vigdis was born in 849 to a lowborn Norse pagan family, and she married the Viking chief Haesteinn of Nantes, a notorious Loire River raider. She bore him two sons, and they accompanied Haesteinn on his invasion of England in 893. They resided at his fortified camp at Benfleet in Essex during his invasion of Wessex, but when the West Saxons captured Wessex, Vigdis and her sons were killed by the English.